Performance / Duration: 60 minutes
An image at a swimming pool on the edge of town in Ruse, Bulgaria, on September 23, 1986, forms a recurrent memory. The performance sets conditions for language to repeatedly return to and diffract this image. Two readers relate a script to four mostly unrehearsed performers, who interpret the text live. Fragments of that memory resurface, they dissolve into stage scores and render memory itself a diffused structure.
Imaginary Magnitudes traces the tensions between what is intended, imagined and actually occurring. It diverges and multiplies experiences of sensory memory, space, pollution, sexuality and class. Assembling fragmentary sensations through reenactment and increasing detail, the insistence on the particular opens up into a magnified and collective present moment.
Gustavo breathes in and out deeply.
He looks at Maija and bites his lower lip.
A light wind moves them slightly.
She make a clear effort to stay balanced.
Esther, hold this position as best as you can.
Take rest when you need in whatever way you need.
